YEREVAN. – According to the Constitution, there are entities that can appeal any legislative act of the parliament. Feliks Tokhyan, a member of the Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia, stated this in a conversation with journalists Tuesday in front of the court, referring to the parliament’s passing of the bill on constitutional amendments on Monday.

To a reporter's remark that this bill will not come to the Constitutional Court to consider its constitutionality, Tokhyan said. "Anyone who says it will not come [to the Constitutional Court ] does not know anything yet. According to the Constitution, there are entities that can appeal any legislative act of the parliament, and the Constitutional Court is the place to appeal [it].”

In response to journalist's observation that as per these constitutional amendments, his powers as a Constitutional Court judge will also cease, and asked whether he is going to retire, the member of the Constitutional Court said as follows, in particular: "Ask them why the parliament is now changing what the people said. We have legitimate expectations. If he [a Constitutional Court judge] behaves lawfully, does not break the law, then he has the right to work until the ‘x’ year.”

"Grasp the essence of the issue from the point of view of individual,  human rights of Tokhyan and other colleagues. You can't sleep in the evening and wake up in the morning, say, ‘You're not a judge anymore,"’ Feliks Tokhyan added.